REPORTS OF CASES. 
221 
fluid extract nux vomica, one dram. Also gave rectal enema, and 
at 5 - 3 ° P* m - cow was on her feet begging for feed, which he 
gave her, and of which she ate heartily. She refused to leave 
stall where she had been down and looked around and lowed, 
as if looking for her calf. The calf had never nursed the mother 
except for a few days after birth. This was her third calf. Do 
not know if she had been rebred or not. The “ quack ” had used 
hot cloths over loins, gave enemas, and the day before had given 
two drams of aloes and two ounces spirits of nitrous ether. He 
also gave one pint of castor oil the first day. Brother to owner, 
who is a physician, gave her two grains of morphine night be¬ 
fore. 
The patient made a complete, rapid and uneventful recovery. 
Is there any doubt about this being a case of parturient paresis 
and has anyone else had a like case? If so, we would be glad to 
hear of it through the Review. The “ quack ” admitted he 
would never have suspected parturient paresis or milk fever. 
AN UNUSUAL PRESCRIPTION. 
By Gerald E. Griffin, Veterinarian, Third Field Artillery, Fort Leavenworth, 
Kansas. 
In a small town in eastern Kansas, the owner of a young 
heifer, which he raised as a pet, presented her to the male at the 
proper time; during copulation the heifer was thrown down by 
the impetuosity of the bull and from that time refused to eat 
unless food was offered by hand. An empiric was called in and 
he made a diagnosis of spinal meningitis, which he proceeded 
to treat with blisters along the spinal column. In the course of 
a few days the owner consulted a young veterinarian, who was 
unable to make a diagnosis; he in his turn called in a veterinary 
friend of much experience, who made a close examination but 
could find nothing wrong. 
The young practitioner pressed the veterinary friend so 
closely for some line of treatment that the latter suggested in 
a jocose manner to give the heifer a good drubbing, which he 
thought would bring her back to her feed. The young prac¬ 
titioner in all seriousness gravely informed the owner that the 
curative prescription should be the drubbing. When the animal 
refused to eat that same evening the owner secured a club and 
soundly belabored the patient. The effect was miraculous; the 
